Home Page / Bonner Program Resources / Bonner Scholar Program Rules / Finances / Overview
Community Fund Grantmaking Guide
Overview | Guides | Campus Examples | Documents to Download
The Bonner Program Community Fund is meant to be both a student-initiated and student-managed process with guidance and support from program staff. The Community Fund provides the necessary resources for Bonner Scholars to benefit their program partners, implement new programs, or attend conferences and workshops for training. By using the Community Fund, students can maximize their initiative and management skills for community capacity building.
The Bonner Community Fund is generated by an allocation of $50 per semester per Bonner Scholar or through an annual grant for funded Bonner Leader Programs. Any unused funds from the Community Fund are rolled over into the next school year to ensure that the maximum amount of resources are available for future projects and initiatives.
Bonner Program staff coordinate internally with their Business Offices to maintain an on-going ledger of Community Fund allocations and expenses so they know the current available balance to share with their Bonner Leadership Team. The Bonner Scholar Program staff report the Community Funds expenses in BWBRS system under the "Community Fund" tab. Bonner Leader Program staff report their Community Fund activity and balance in their annual Bonner Leader Program Fiscal Report.
Uses for the Bonner Community Fund
The Bonner Community Fund can be used for activities related to the following three categories:
Examples of appropriate uses of the Bonner Community Fund include:
Examples of inappropriate uses of the Community Fund include:
Student leadership in the management of the Bonner Community Fund is an important feature of funded Bonner Programs. As you’ll see in the Guide section that follows, programs are required to have a student-led, staff-supervised process for student submission of proposals, review, awarding, and tracking of student-led or student-connected community service projects and partners. The Bonner Program staff role is to a) maintain accurate reporting of the allocations into and the expenses out of their Bonner Community Fund and b) give final approval to student-approved Community Fund proposal expenses to ensure they are eligible uses.